What was once a planned break to write my memoir has since become my unplanned retirement from pharmaceutical marketing. My unexpected life’s career when I expected my life’s career would be something else entirely. At one point it was ministry, then teaching, and then looking for any job to pay back my student loans. Taking […]
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Feb
Feb
It’s a cold, gray and rainy day and I couldn’t be happier. This melancholy message might seem like a strange sentence to script, but I live in Vegas; and it’s been over 200 days since we’ve had rain; almost seven months. An ashen atmosphere dropping dust infused droplets on a hard and harsh habitat. Streetlights […]
25
Jan
Jan
I never intended to spend my “retirement” years reflecting and writing about my faith and modern-day American culture. Instead, I assumed I would spend my second adult life just like my corporate adult years. Denying the reality of God, continuing to make my life only about me, and following the rules of the Empire to […]
18
Jan
Jan
In the desert darkness of winter, the Light of the world appeared to me and my burdens were lifted. My life’s purpose clear as I came to embrace the Truth. This Prodigal child welcomed back into his Father’s fold. A soul no longer in isolation. A soul in restoration. This February, twenty-two to be […]
11
Jan
Jan
Last week President Biden awarded nineteen recipients with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. As one might expect, there was “outrage” from those […]
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Dec
Dec
I love the Christmas season. It’s a sensual spectacle for my soul. The yummy treats that appear only once a year, even if my appetite for them is a year-round event. The power of light to pierce the short December days and even longer December nights. The glorious music. The profane and holy, both speaking […]
14
Dec
Dec
For the last three weeks of my life, everything has been about moving, money and materials. Cardboard boxes, clear packaging tape and cylinders of bubble wrap. The latter as much for the cat as it is for those items we’ve deemed fragile. Our cat not among the fragile, but the treasured. Navigating a regulatory real […]
16
Nov
Nov
We are born into an earthly existence that is measured in milestones, memories and moments. A process that begins at birth; recording our arrival time and location. A process that ends with death; recording our departure time and location. Our lives bookended by numbers that simply state our commencement and our closure as the dearly departed.
10
Aug
Aug
I was blessed to be raised by parents who sincerely believe in God, and who surely believe in the unconditional love of God. A Christian home rooted in the ethic of love God and ALL your neighbors. The commandment in which the law, the prophets and the entire ministry of Jesus is summarized. Even though […]
03
Aug
Aug
Full of repentance and humility; thankfulness and gratitude; peace and love; I fully surrendered myself to God. To live a new life. A life of love that tries to honor God and all people, including people resistant to God’s unconditional love and unyielding grace like I once was.